The Oxford India Ramanujan

by Ramanujan, A. K.; Daniels-Ramanujan, Molly

• ISBN13: 9780195664782
• ISBN10: 0195664787
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Poet, translator, and folklorist, A. K. Ramanujan has been recognized as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. This omnibus collection brings all of his diverse poetic output in one volume. It will enable readers and scholars to see much more easily the interconnectedness of his work in different genres--original poetry and scholarly translations--and different languages.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Vinay Dharwadker
Book One: The Striders (1966)
The Striders	3	(1)
Snakes	4	(2)
The Opposable Thumb	6	(1)
Breaded Fish	7	(1)
On a Delhi Sundial	8	(1)
A Leaky Tap After a Sister's Wedding	9	(2)
Two Styles in Love	11	(1)
Still Life	12	(1)
This Pair	13	(1)
On the Very Possible Jaundice of an Unborn Daughter	14	(1)
Still Another for Mother	15	(2)
Lines to a Granny	17	(1)
A Rather Foolish Sentiment	18	(1)
Looking for a Cousin on a Swing	19	(1)
I Could Have Rested	20	(1)
On Memory	21	(1)
Instead of a Farewell	22	(1)
Self-Portrait	23	(1)
The Rickshaw-Wallah	24	(1)
Which Reminds Me	25	(1)
Sometimes	26	(1)
Chess Under Trees	27	(1)
No Man Is an Island	28	(1)
Anxiety	29	(1)
KMnO4 in Grandfather's Shaving Glass	30	(2)
Christmas	32	(2)
Conventions of Despair	34	(2)
A Certain Democrat	36	(1)
Towards Simplicity	37	(1)
A River	38	(2)
A Hindu to His Body	40	(1)
Excerpts from a Father's Wisdom	41	(2)
Epitaph on a Street Dog	43	(1)
Images	44	(1)
Still Another View of Grace	45	(1)
An Image for Politics	46	(1)
Case History	47	(1)
One Reads	48	(2)
Lac into Seal	50	(1)
The Fall	51	(2)
A Poem on Particulars	53	(4)
Book Two: Relations (1971)
It Does not Follow, but When in the Street	57	(1)
Man and Woman in Camera and Out	58	(2)
A Wobbly Top	60	(1)
Of Mothers, among other things	61	(1)
The Hindoo: he doesn't hurt a fly or a spider either	62	(2)
Time and Time Again	64	(1)
Love Poem for a Wife, 1	65	(3)
Routine Day Sonnet	68	(1)
Army Ants	69	(2)
One, Two, Maybe Three, Arguments against Suicide	71	(2)
One More After Reading Homer	73	(1)
Some Indian Uses of History on a Rainy Day	74	(2)
A Lapse of Memory	76	(1)
Eyes, Ears, Noses, and a Thing about Touch	77	(2)
The Hindoo: he reads his Gita and is calm at all events	79	(1)
Poona Train Window	80	(2)
Time to Stop	82	(1)
Love Poem for a Wife, 2	83	(3)
Entries for a Catalogue of Fears	86	(4)
The Hindoo: the only risk	90	(1)
Real Estate	91	(2)
Any Cow's Horn Can Do It	93	(2)
When It Happens	95	(1)
Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House	96	(4)
Smalltown, South India	100	(1)
Some Relations	101	(2)
Take Care	103	(2)
The Last of the Princes	105	(1)
Old Indian Belief	106	(1)
History	107	(2)
Compensations	109	(2)
Obituary	111	(2)
Prayers to Lord Murugan	113	(8)
Book Three: Second Sight (1986)
Elements of Composition	121	(3)
Ecology	124	(2)
No Amnesiac King	126	(2)
In the Zoo	128	(2)
Questions	130	(2)
Fear	132	(2)
Astronomer	134	(1)
Death and the Good Citizen	135	(2)
The Watchers	137	(1)
Snakes and Ladders	138	(1)
Pleasure	139	(2)
A Poor Man's Riches 1	141	(1)
On the Death of a Poem	142	(1)
A Poor Man's Riches 2	143	(1)
A Minor Sacrifice	144	(5)
Alien	149	(1)
Saturdays	150	(3)
Zoo Gardens Revisited	153	(2)
Son to Father to Son	155	(2)
Drafts	157	(2)
At Forty	159	(3)
He too Was a Light Sleeper Once	162	(1)
Highway Stripper	163	(4)
Middle Age	167	(2)
Extended Family	169	(2)
The Difference	171	(3)
Dancers in a Hospital	174	(2)
Moulting	176	(1)
Some People	177	(1)
Connect!	178	(1)
Looking and Finding	179	(1)
Love Poem for a Wife and Her Trees	180	(4)
Looking for the Centre	184	(2)
Chicago Zen	186	(3)
Waterfalls in a Bank	189	(2)
Second Sight	191	(4)
Book Four: The Black Hen (1995)
The Black Hen	195	(1)
Foundlings in the Yukon	196	(2)
Dream in an Old Language	198	(1)
Shadows	199	(1)
At Zero	200	(2)
Salamanders	202	(2)
Traces	204	(1)
Fire	205	(1)
Birthdays	206	(2)
Fog	208	(1)
One More on a Deathless Theme	209	(3)
August	212	(2)
Three Dreams	214	(1)
It	215	(1)
Not Knowing	216	(1)
On Not Learning from Animals	217	(1)
Blind Spots	218	(1)
Love 1: what she said	219	(1)
Sonnet	220	(1)
Mythologies 1	221	(1)
Love 2: what he said, groping	222	(2)
Turning Around	224	(1)
Love 3: what he said, remembering	225	(1)
Mythologies 2	226	(1)
Love 4: what he said, to his daughter	227	(1)
Mythologies 3	228	(1)
Love 5	229	(1)
Contraries	230	(1)
Engagement	231	(1)
The Day Went Dark	232	(1)
Love 6: winter	233	(1)
That Tree	234	(1)
Pain: trying to find a metaphor	235	(1)
Fizzle	236	(1)
A Devotee's Complaint	237	(1)
In March	238	(1)
A Meditation	239	(2)
Difficulty	241	(1)
Poetry and Our City	242	(1)
No Fifth Man	243	(3)
Bulls	246	(1)
Bosnia	247	(1)
A Report	248	(2)
As Eichmann Said, My Brother Said	250	(1)
The Guru	251	(1)
A Ruler	252	(1)
Poverty	253	(1)
Butcher's Tao	254	(1)
A Copper Vat	255	(1)
Museum	256	(1)
Images	257	(7)
If Eyes Can See	264	(1)
Elegy	265	(2)
Lines	267	(1)
To a Friend Far Away	268	(1)
Some Monarchs and a Wish	269	(2)
From Where?	271	(2)
Death in Search of a Comfortable Metaphor	273	(1)
Pain	274	(1)
Fear No Fall	275	(3)
A Note on The Black Hen and After	278	(4)
Molly Daniels-Ramanujan
Index of Titles	282	(3)
Index of First Lines	285